Etymologies

Examples

Tomas Sanchez, president of the securities regulator known as CNV, said the number of brokerages will likely be cut to less than 20 and that most of the unemployed traders may be able to live off savings since they earned commissions in dollars.

It is caused by abnormal growth of fragile and leaky blood vessels (choroidal neovascularization or 'CNV') in the macula (a small area where vision is keenest at the center of the retina) in response to chronic inflammatory stress.

Given the prevalence of CNV in the human genome, and the recent demonstration that increased copy number underlies a key human adaptation, the suggestion that duplicate genes are of necessity under negative selection is plainly incorrect.